# 割賦販売法 / Installment Sales Act — 第五条 (Article 5) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-5. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 割賦販売法 (Installment Sales Act), 昭和三十六年法律第百五十九号 - English title "Installment Sales Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第五条 (Article 5)（契約の解除等の制限） — address `art-5` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-5 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-5 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第五条（契約の解除等の制限） — (Restrictions on the Cancellation of Contracts) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-5 **第一項** 割賦販売業者は、割賦販売の方法により指定商品若しくは指定権利を販売する契約又は指定役務を提供する契約について賦払金（第二条第一項第二号に規定する割賦販売の方法により指定商品若しくは指定権利を販売する契約又は指定役務を提供する契約にあつては、弁済金。以下この項において同じ。）の支払の義務が履行されない場合において、二十日以上の相当な期間を定めてその支払を書面で催告し、その期間内にその義務が履行されないときでなければ、賦払金の支払の遅滞を理由として、契約を解除し、又は支払時期の到来していない賦払金の支払を請求することができない。 art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-5/par-1 In the event of an unperformed obligation to pay an installment pursuant to a contract under which designated goods or designated rights are sold or a contract under which designated services are provided in a way that involves an installment sale (or to make the payment, in respect of a contract under which designated goods or designated rights are sold or designated services are provided in a way that involves an installment sale as prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (ii); the same applies below in this paragraph), the installment seller may not cancel the contract or demand the payment of installments that are not yet due on the grounds of a delay in the payment of an installment, unless it makes a written demand for this to be paid within a reasonable period of not less than twenty days, and the obligation is not performed within that period. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定に反する特約は、無効とする。 art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-5/par-2 Any special provisions of a contract that run counter to the preceding paragraph are void. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-5/par-1: 第二条第一項第二号 → 割賦販売法 第二条第一項第二号 (Article 2, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-2/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-2/par-1/item-2 - art-5/par-1: この項 → 割賦販売法 第五条第一項 (Article 5, paragraph (1)), art-5/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-5/par-1 - art-5/par-2: 前項 → 割賦販売法 第五条第一項 (Article 5, paragraph (1)), art-5/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-5/par-1 ## Cited by 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 割賦販売法 第五条第一項（契約の解除等の制限） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-5/par-1 - 割賦販売法 第五条第二項（契約の解除等の制限） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/art-5/par-2 - 割賦販売法 附則第二項（経過規定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/suppl-3361-159/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-3361-159/par-2 - 割賦販売法 附則第二項（経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/suppl-3591-49/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-3591-49/par-2 - 割賦販売法 附則第三条第二項（割賦販売法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/suppl-4121-120/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-4121-120/art-3/par-2 - 割賦販売法 附則第三条第二項（割賦販売法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/suppl-4161-44/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-4161-44/art-3/par-2 - 割賦販売法 附則第五条第四項（割賦販売法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/installment-sales-act/suppl-4201-74/art-5/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000159/suppl-4201-74/art-5/par-4 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 割賦販売法 — the text in force from 2025-06-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/336AC0000000159/20250601_504AC0000000068), retrieved 2026-11-02 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Installment Sales Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4837/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02 - This site's parser, version 220 — 割賦販売法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02